Employment and skills: current projects

Inclusion has been commissioned by Age Concern London to evaluate their Over 50s Employment Project which involes the employment of personal advisors providing one to one support to people over 50 who need to secure paid employment.

The Learning and Skills Council has commissioned Inclusion, in partnership with the Institute for Employment Studies and NICEC, to undertake the evaluation of the advancement network prototypes.

Inclusion is currently producing labour market and exclusion analysis for Bryan City, Texas

Inclusion, in partnership with Ipsos MORI, has been commissioned by the Learning and Skills Council to carry out an evaluation of the Care to Learn programme, in order to track the destinations of young parents funded in 2008/09.

Inclusion has been commissioned by the Centre for Responsible Credit (CfRC) to produce a mapping tool using InstantAtlas to present various statistics relating to debt and worklessness.

Inclusion has been commissioned by Manchester Enterprises to support the development of new Working Neighbourhood Teams (WNTs) across Greater Manchester to engage more inactive residents.

Inclusion is working with the Newhaven Community Development Association to develop, test and deliver innovative active inclusion measures to integrate disadvantaged groups into the labour market

Inclusion, in partnership with IFF Research, has been commissioned by the Learning and Skills Council to evaluate the newly re-launched Professional and Career Development Loan programme.

Inclusion has been commissioned by St Mungo's and the London Borough of Camden to conduct the final evaluation of the Single Homeless Enterprise Project.

Inclusion has been commissioned by the London Development Agency to build and maintain a website pooling the wide range of existing statistics, research and information on the state of the London labour market.

In partnership with the Centre for Public Policy, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and NatCen, Inclusion is undertaking an evaluation of the changes to the obligations on lone parents who claim benefit.

Inclusion, in association with a range of Flexible New Deal Primes, is carrying out a Personal Advisor Survey to profile the existing private and voluntary sector employment advisor workforce.

The North West Development Agency commissioned Inclusion, in partnership with Experian, to examine the extent to which the black and minority ethnic population is under-employed and under-skilled.

Inclusion has been commissioned by DWP to carry out an evaluation of Work Choice to provide an understanding of the delivery, management and experience of this new specialist disability employment programme.

Inclusion have been commissioned by Women Like Us to carry out research into what works in providing successful employment support for mothers, with the aim of having policy impact through improving and then mainstreaming what is currently a niche provision.